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共 125 题- THE UNLIT LAMP
- By
- RADCLYFFE HALL
- CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
- London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
- First Published 1924
- To
- THE UNLIT LAMP
- CHAPTER ONE
- He got up heavily. "No, I'm going to the club."
- Joan pushed her roughly. "You're a poor thing, Milly."
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- Milly began to lag. "I'm tired to-day, let's go into the arcade."
- CHAPTER FOUR
- Joan rang it. "The master's breakfast, Alice?"
- Colonel Ogden began again: "Well, upon my----"
- Mrs. Ogden looked over the table napkin. "Has he gone, Joan?"
- CHAPTER FIVE
- People began to go. "Good-bye, such a charming party."
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- There was a pause. "I'm not as young as you are, dearest."
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- She hesitated. "Elizabeth would like me to."
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- Joan sprang to her side. "Oh, Elizabeth!"
- Joan thought: "I ought to know what that means, but I don't."
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- Joan smiled. "Can't you hear? She's at her fiddle."
- She said: "Why? Because Elizabeth has burnt her hands?"
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- Lady Loo was not so sure, but she said: "Well, then, she must learn."
- Lady Loo smiled. "What, for instance? How to get married?"
- Her eyes brightened. "Oh, will you, Richard?"
- Presently she said: "I want to talk to you about Lawrence."
- Richard whistled. "Will she have him, do you think?"
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- She flushed. "Don't say it!" she exclaimed. "I forbid you to say it!"
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
- Elizabeth said once: "You were little when I first knew you, Joan."
- And Joan answered: "Yes, I was little then."
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
- Joan said: "Not much, but all I have."
- Joan held out her hand. "Good-bye, Elizabeth."
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
- The bell clanged. "Milk!"
- Mrs. Ogden's voice broke the silence: "Joan, it's ten o'clock!"
- Joan hesitated. "Well, you see, it's rather difficult just now----"
- She thought: "If they go on like this I shall scream!"
- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
- CHAPTER THIRTY
- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
- Joan hesitated. "At the present moment, nothing."
- She protested: "Oh, but surely this is Miss Wilmot's place."
- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
- Miss Lesway said: "No, I don't think you ever will. God help you!"
- Joan took Elizabeth's hand. "Rotten, it's being over!"
- The train slowed down. Joan said: "Oh, not already?"
- Mrs. Ogden came into her room. "You haven't kissed me yet, darling."
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
- But Richard had laughed angrily. "She won't marry me, unfortunately."
- Richard looked at her. "Did you speak, Joan?"
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
- Elizabeth freed herself with a quick twist of her body. "What?"
- She said: "Don't, oh, don't!"
- Joan thought: "She's terribly nervous of what she has to tell me."
- Harriet laughed. "Don't slay me with a glance, my dear!"
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
- She stiffened. "I said I didn't love you, isn't that enough?"
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
- Joan protested. "I'm not a bit hipped, but I'm terribly afraid."
- Joan shook her head. "I can't, I can't."
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
- Elizabeth caught her breath. "What _do_ you mean, Joan?"
- CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
- CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
- Elizabeth looked up from the book she was reading. "I don't know, Joan."
- She sought Elizabeth out for comfort. "Only a few weeks now, Elizabeth."
- Joan said: "Think of it; this is for our books, yours and mine."
- CHAPTER FORTY
- Joan started. "So it is," she stammered, "and I had forgotten."
- Elizabeth said sharply: "Joan, we shall miss the train, are you ready?"
- Elizabeth made a little inarticulate sound in her throat: "Joan!"
- JOAN,
- ELIZABETH.
- CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
- Joan sighed. "Here comes the tea, Mother."
- CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
- Mrs. Ogden took off her spectacles. "They? Who?"
- CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
- CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
- They began to pet the bird. "Pretty Bob, pretty fellow!"
- CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
- They stared at each other in silence for a moment, and then: "Oh, Joan!"
- He took her hand and pressed it very gently. "I know that, my dear."
- CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
- She looked at him questioningly. "What's better?"
- He laughed. "What, in twenty years, has nothing happened?"
- He smiled. "Good Lord, no, of course not; only she asked me not to."
- Joan said: "So that's Elizabeth."
- CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
- He replied: "We none of us really change, Joan, except on the surface."
- Joan weakened. "Well, wait a minute, then, while I go and say good-bye."
- He noticed her lagging steps: "Rest, my dear, we've walked too far."
- She sprang up and he followed her. "Richard, have you gone quite mad?"
- He covered his face with his hands. "Don't, I can't bear it, Joan!"
- She nodded. "Yes, she could have saved me, but I let her go."
- CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
- CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
- She sprang up. "I won't go!" she exclaimed aloud. "I won't, I _won't_!"
- CHAPTER FIFTY